Heated Windscreen Washer Jets

[bonesthebutcher]

What with all of this "lovely" weather we're having, I'm getting a little fed up with frozen washerjets... (I know it's not the screenwash freezing as, if I heat one jet with a hairdryer it starts working again whilst the other jet remains firmly frozen.)

Does anyone know of any electrically heated drop-in replacement washer jets? I'm told even current range doesn't have heated washerjets... shame, 'cos I believe they're fitted on many models by Ford, Audi, BMW, Mercedes, etc

[psbarham]

Even the missus's 1996 golf bum basic model has heated washer jets. its probably the most powerful thing on the whole car

[Turbo_Steve]

Any benefit in using a loop of pipe to each jet from the engines water jacket? I suppose at least electric will thaw out immediately.

[bonesthebutcher]

Any benefit in using a loop of pipe to each jet from the engines water jacket? I suppose at least electric will thaw out immediately.

Funny enough I did think of that but, as you say, electric is instant (and easy to wire into the demister circuit) whilst water heated would take a good few minutes to get the heat through to the jets.

[chris g]

Most progressive thing - heated washer jets AND Quickclear front windscreen

Thank you Ford!

[gareth001]

Talking to my friend who is a bit of an expert when it comes to Land Rover, especially Range Rovers. They use heated coils at the spray end - these are then activated when the outside temperature sensor gets to a certain low.

So I guess potentially this could be hacked and put onto a VR-4?

OR Vauxhall ones maybe more compatible as they work off a switch being enabled, on a Vectra the rear demister:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VECTRA-C-SIGNU...#ht_692wt_1052

And also the MR2 way is with Mondeo washers, but cut a bit out of the bonnet, again linking to the heated rear screen: http://www.mr2roc.org/phpBB3/viewtop...20390&p=333824

[bonesthebutcher]

Thanks - gives me some idea of where to "focus" my efforts I'll try and sneak a size up over the next couple of days in my works car park (the staff are sure gonna ask questions when they see me running around their cars with a vernier ) and hopefully order something close to drop-in from ebay...

[VR4WGN]

my mate came round yesterday and boasted with his all new heated windscreen,firs tiv ever seen lol.. i took some pics

[elnevio]

Quickclear front windscreen

It was all a con when it first came out - I saw straight through it!

[chris g]

Made me think of heated rear screen...

...but I never looked back...

[VR4WGN]

Made me think of heated rear screen...

...but I never looked back...

Funny lol